Solids

Eternal Summers have made a video for "The Roses," one of the prettiest songs on this year's Gold & Stone which I think is their best album yet...

Short-lived but influential '90s emo band Boys Life reunited this year and signed to Topshelf for a reissue of their 1996 album, Departures and Landfa...

Montreal band Chocolat released their third album, Tss Tss, last year -- a terrific slab of psych/prog that broke through the French language barrier into the astral plane...

Tickets to the Protomartyr, Omni, Lemon Twigs, DRINKS, Yoko and the Oh No's, Mothers, Car Seat Headrest, and Modern Vices CMJ show at Rough Trade go on sale today at noon...

Boston singer/songwriter Adam Silvestri, aka Radiator King (not to be confused with Radiator Hospital), makes the kind of folk with punk grit that Chuck Ragan does in his solo career or The Gaslight Anthem does on their more recent material...

Punk festival Pouzza Fest will return this year to various Montreal venues from May 15-17, and they've got a typically great lineup including the still-reunited Knapsack, Municipal Waste, The Dwarves, 88 Fingers Louie, Teenage Bottlerocket, No Trigger, Beach Slang, Cayetana, Chumped, Jeff Rosenstock, Solids and more...

Boston post-hardcore band Pile are releasing You're Better Than This, the followup to 2012's very good Dripping, on March 3 via Exploding In Sound...

Lydia Ainsworth is based in Toronto these days but has spent time in both Montreal and New York City as a music student. It was while at NYU that she began delving into pop music...

Two solid (heh) fuzzy (heh heh) bands from different parts of the globe, Montreal's Solids and Glasgow's PAWS, will be going on separate tours soon that meet up in NYC for the Ipsum/Heavy Trip CMJ showcase happening at Shea Stadium on October...

Single Mothers in Chicago in 2013 (more by James Richards IV) We recently mentioned that Ontario punks Single Mothers finally finished their debut LP and now it's officially been announ...